 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 476 pages
...stick in his hand, a stone in his throat. If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. CL. ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, They all went...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLI. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...stick in his hand, a stone in his throat. If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. CL. ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, They all went...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLI. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 468 pages
...stick in his hand, a stone in his throat. If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. CL. ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, They all went...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLI. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Counting-out rhymes - 1843 - 332 pages
...his hand, a stone in his throat, — If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. CLXXXVI. ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, They all went...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. CLXXXVII. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...stick in his hand, a stone in his throat, If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. CXXXI. ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, They all went...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. cxxxu. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 266 pages
...stick in his hand, a stone in his -throat, If you 'll tell me this riddle, I 'll give you a groat. 130. ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess, They all went together to seek a bird's nest. They found a bird s nest, with five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. 131. As I was going to St. Ives,... | |
 | Johann Wilhelm Wolf - Folk-lore, Germanic - 1855 - 918 pages
...I'll give you a groat. = fchlesw. holl't. fag. f. 506 nr.8, Simrock nr.22. II. nr.20. 6. NR. CXXXI: Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, they all went...eggs in, ,.-. they all took one, and left four in. NR. CLII: Twelve pears hanging high, twelve knights riding by; each knight took a pear, and yet left... | |
 | Nursery rhymes, English - 1858 - 362 pages
...in his hand, a stone in his throat, If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a groat. CCXXVIII. ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, They all went...five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. RIDDLES. CCXXIX. As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks,... | |
 | Charles Henry Bennett - Drawing - 1858 - 82 pages
...stone dead, Stick him up, stick him down, Stick him in the old man's crown. "PLIZABETH, Lizzy, and Betsy and Bess, They all went together to seek a bird's...five eggs in, They all took one and left four in. "p'EN-a, deen-a, Dine-a, dust, Catt'11-a, ween-a, Wine-a, wust, Spit, spot, must be done, Twiddlum,... | |
 | A L. Hately - Games - 1868 - 128 pages
...golden apple doth appear ; No doors nor windows you behold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold. 10. Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess, They all went...five eggs in : They all took one, and left four in. 11. A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose ; A hundred eyes and never a nose. 102 12. Highty, tighty, paradighty,... | |
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ELIZABETH, Elspeth, Betsy and Bess, They all went together to seek a bird's nest. They found a bird's nest with five eggs in, They all took one, and left four in. 
